home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Short: XAnim: Avi/Quicktime/FLI/FLC/IFF/GIF/MPEG/ etc..anim player!
- Uploader: terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no
- Author: Mark Podlipec/Terje Pedersen (Amiga part)
- Type: gfx/show
-
- XAnim is an animation viewer (version 2.69.7.8)
- at least 68020+WB2.04 is needed, but you don't need an X11 server running!
- (Nor my libX11 link library..)
-
- This is a port of the X11 animation viewer Xanim by Mark Podlipec.
-
- Whats new:
- The +Cn option (preserves workbench colors) fixed
- (libX11 returned 8 bit color values but should have been 16 bit)
- ---
- + AVI RGB depth 24 support added.
- + AVI XMPG support added. This is the Editable MPEG Video
- + IFF Anim8 support written by Garrick Meeker.
- + DL animation format thrown back in and now allows it to
-
- some info from the xanim.man file:
- XAnim is a program that can display animations of various
- formats on systems running X11. XAnim currently supports the
- following animation types:
-
- + FLI animations.
- + FLC animations.
- + IFF animations. The following features are supported:
- -> Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small L).
- -> Color cycling during single images and anims.
- -> Display Modes: depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and HAM8.
- + GIF87a and GIF89a files.
- -> single and multiple images supported.
- -> GIF89a animation extensions supported.
- + GIF89a animation extension support.
- + a kludgy text file listing gifs and what order to show them in.
- + DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and most of 3.
- + Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations. DISABLED TEMPORARILY.
- + Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz fans).
- + Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
- + AVI animations. Currently supported are
- ->*IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) depth 16.
- -> JPEG (JPEG) depth 24.
- -> Motion JPEG (MJPG) depth 24.
- -> Intergraph JPEG (IJPG) depth 24.
- -> Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
- -> SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24.
- -> Uncompressed (RGB ) depth 8
- -> Uncompressed (RGB ) depth 24
- -> Run length encoded (RLE8) depth 8.
- -> Editable MPEG (XMPG) depth 24.
- + Quicktime Animations. The following features are supported:
- -> Uncompressed (RAW ) depth 4,8,16,24 and 24+
- -> Uncompressed (RAW ) Gray depth 4 and 8.
- -> Apple Graphics (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24.
- -> Apple Graphics (RLE ) GRAY depth 8.
- -> Apple Animation (SMC ) depth 8 and GRAY 8.
- -> Apple Video (RPZA) depth 16.
- -> SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24 and GRAY 8.
- -> Component Video (YUV2) depth 24.
- -> Photo JPEG (JPEG) depth 8 and 24.
- -> Supports multiple video trak's.
- -> Supports animations with multiple codecs.
- -> Supports merged and separated resource forks.
- + JFIF images. NOTE: use XV for single images. This is more
- for animation of a sequence of JPEG images.
- + MPEG animations. Currently only Type I Frames are
- displayed. Type B and Type P frames are currently
- ignored, but will be added in future revs.
- + WAV audio files may have their sound added to any animation
- type that doesn't already have audio, by specifying the .wav
- file after the animation file on the command line. Currently
- only the PCM audio codec is supported.
- + any combination of the above on the same command line.
-
- The following is a list of currently supported audio formats:
-
- AVI 8 and 16 bit RAW(PCM) mono/stereo.
- AVI ADPCM is supported(mono only for now).
- Quicktime 8 and 16 bit RAW(PCM) mono/stereo.
- Quicktime 8 and 16 bit TWOS(signed PCM) mono/stereo.
-
- Want to know more about xanim? try:
- http://www.portal.com/~podlipec/home.html "The XAnim Home Page"
-
- Like to know more of my other efforts? try:
- http://www.cs.uit.no/~kjelli/tp (probably seriously outdated..)
-
- Reported to work on:
- Amiga 3000 with EGS Spectrum board (promoting XAnim)
- Amiga 3000 with Picasso II (promoting Xanim)
- Amiga 4000 native
- Amiga 4000 with EGS Spectrum board (promoting XAnim)
-
- Amiga 2000 with a Retina GFXBoard
-
- So there is a slight chance it will work on others too!
-
- TP
-